Minerals
Minerals Help the Body to Function
While vitamins usually are prominent in any discussion of dietary supplements, minerals are also essential for good health and for growth. Minerals are elements that originate in the Earth and cannot be made by living systems. Plants obtain minerals from the soil, and most of the minerals in our diets come from directly from plants or indirectly from animal sources. Minerals may also be present in the water we drink, but this varies with geographic location. Minerals from plant sources may also vary from place to place, because soil mineral content varies geographically. Just the right amounts of minerals in our diets are necessary. Some minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, sodium, chloride, potassium, magnesium, and sulfur are needed in relatively large amounts in the diet. "Large" is measured in a range of milligrams to one gram. Other minerals called "trace minerals," are needed in small amounts. Examples of these minerals are iron, manganese, copper, iodine, zinc, cobalt, flourine and selenium to mention a few. Historically, we have not always recognized the importance of minerals to our diet and the understanding of the importance of minerals to our health is constantly being revised.
Mineral elements have two general body functions - building and regulating. Their building functions affect the skeletal and all soft tissues. Their regulating functions include a wide variety of systems, such as heartbeat, blood clotting, maintenance of the internal pressure of body fluids, nerve responses, and transport of oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. Vemma's Essential Minerals provides a number of minerals to assist the body in maintaining a normal, productive state.
Plant source minerals, such as are offered by Vemma, are an excellent supply of valuable minerals! Plants assimilate minerals from the soil in which they are embedded and, in the process, an amazing conversion that science has not been able to duplicate takes place to prepare some of them for human consumption. Nature really intended for humans to get minerals from plant foods — lots of minerals. As a matter of fact, minerals can be found in nearly all foods that are grown in soil. Carrots, grapes, broccoli...you name it. The problem in this day and age is that food processing, chemical fertilizers and overused crop lands make it very difficult to get a wide spectrum of minerals from our diets. We just aren't getting what nature intended. Nothing is more beneficial than a full range of plant source minerals sourced from deposits that are thousands of years old — it's like harnessing the power of nature!
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